My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

I've never understood the cult of Hitchcock. Particularly the late American movies... Egotism and laziness. And they're all lit like television shows.

Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

We made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.